The city as campus : urbanism and higher education in Chicago /

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Urban schools play an important role in shaping the cities outside their walls. This book uses Chicago as a case study to examine how universities interact with their urban contexts, demonstrating how higher education became integrated with ideas of urban growth as schools evolved alongside the city...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haar, Sharon, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Community and college > Illinois > Chicago.
Universities and colleges > Illinois > Chicago.
Architecture and society > Illinois > Chicago.
Relations université-collectivité > Illinois > Chicago.
Universités > Illinois > Chicago.
Architecture et société > Illinois > Chicago.
EDUCATION > Higher.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Architecture and society.
Community and college.
Universities and colleges.
Illinois > Chicago.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • New institutions for a new environment : pedagogical space in the progressive city
  • City as laboratory : Hull-House and the rise of the Chicago School
  • Modern city, modern campus : institutional expansion and urban renewal in the postwar era
  • Classrooms off the expressway : a new mission for higher education
  • "Model of the modern urban university" : the new spatial form of the Chicago Circle campus
  • Campus revolt : the reform of the commuter university
  • City as campus : university space in the global city
  • Conclusion.

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